Enjoy this vocaloid music video by Megurine Luka while I go write up some other posts about stuff that happened over the weekend. This song was stuck in my head for way too long, and when a song gets stuck in my head, I make the rest of the world suffer along as well.

By the way, interesting fact — the girl with the pink hair is Megurine Luka (and I think the male is Kaito?).

Want the mp3? You can get it here. Make sure you click on where it says, "パソコンへ転送".

A few days ago, Crypton announced their newest vocaloid! Joining the ranks of Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Len & Rin is newcomer Megurine Luka (played by Asakawa Yuu, voice of Motoko from Love Hina and Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh). Curiously enough, she's the first character design that isn't incorporating a school uniform motif. Her release date is currently set on January 30th.

According to Crypton, the name Megurine comes from Meguri (巡,Round) to suggest an all encompassing voice that will reach across the languages of culture. But what separates Luka from the other vocaloids is her voice, which is "cool" and "husky"(If you're wondering what that means, try to imagine a softer and deeper voice). Check the sample below to get a taste.Here's a few more bits of info from her biography:

A while back there was a fan made video of the song "Ai wa Sensou" (Love is War) that was an immediate hit on NicoDouga. The visuals in the original video really set the mood for the song. The song itself is really edgy, with a quiet kind of punk rock that most Hatsune Miku vids don't emulate. It's a really good song that stands on its own two legs.

In this video though, someone went above and beyond and actually made a moving music video put to CG…the results are amazing.

So I found out that the name of that program that allows you to create various Hatsune Miku 3D CG movies is called MikuMikuDance! I've never used it, so sadly I can't offer any kind of advice on how to work it (if you do figure it out, do send me a message, please!).

Do some surfing on youtube, and you're bound to find loads of videos out there. Just type in 'mikumikudance' in the search bar, and that'll get you started on your way! In the meantime, enjoy these videos of Parappa the Rapper parodies!

There's been a bit of small tide of talented Japanese programmers who've been making music / dance videos of the ever popular Hatsune Miku (of Yamaha's popular music program Vocaloid) on the web. Many of them range from simple shorts to painstakingly detailed anime-remakes of popular parodies. If I ever find those links that can let you make your own videos, I'll try to update this post.

The song is called "Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai. Last time I saw this was roughly a decade ago, and it's still pretty cool to watch ^^

You can catch the original music video here (embedding has been disabled by request, and yes, thank you Sony BMG and your inane DRM rules).